- Suzanne Sherman

Alma

By Suzanne Sherman on February 18, 2012 / Memoir Writing

At 26 I led my first writing workshop at the dining room table of my San Francisco flat, overlooking rooftops and traffic winding along Highway 101. I hadn’t been able to find the workshop I wanted, so I created one, and gave groups of writers what I was looking for:

Inviting the Muse

By Suzanne Sherman on January 25, 2012 / Living the Writing Life, Memoir Writing

I hear about it all the time. People tell me they write when they’re inspired. Some write on a schedule, or at least they aspire to. And some people write by the seasons; wintertime becomes a perfect time to create and polish. Author Terry Tempest Williams is one who writes

Shadow Boxes

By Suzanne Sherman on January 11, 2012 / Living the Writing Life

Shadow boxes fascinated me as a little girl. You could cut out cardboard in the shapes of people and furniture, fold a bottom edge of each piece and glue it to the inside of a shoe box, cut a quarter-sized hole in the narrow end of it, peek inside, and

There’s Nothing Like a Writing Buddy

By Suzanne Sherman on January 4, 2012 / Living the Writing Life

I met my writing buddy in 1998, in a writing workshop at a summer conference. We were given a writing prompt and 15 minutes to pour words onto a page before reading them around the circle. Besides being a contract writer for Kaiser’s Northern California members newsletter, Susan was a

Alma

Inviting the Muse

Shadow Boxes

There’s Nothing Like a Writing Buddy

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